system clock misbehaving
Benham Family
pique at netspace.net.au
Fri Jun 2 10:48:02 UTC 2006
On Thursday 01 June 2006 06:03, Benham Family wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 05:11, Craig Goodyear wrote:
> > Benham Family wrote:
> > > Odd. Since updating my FC4 system's kernel a few days ago my system
> > > clock has been gaining time like mad.
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Tim
> >
> > When I installed FC5, the clock began gaining a lot using the 2.6.16
> > kernels. I had no clock problems with FC4 using the kernels prior to
> > 2.6.16. I found the problem to be my motherboard / chipset. I am using
> > a MSI K7N2 motherboard with Nvidia nForce2 chipset. I found by
> > disabling the FSB spread spectrum in the BIOS, the problem went away.
> > If you have a Nvidia nForce2 chipset, you may want to test this work
> > around.
>
> I do have Nvidia nForce2 so I'll give it a try.
Yes, that worked. Well, sort of. ntpd never settles down (it's still querying
the ntp server once a second a day after rebooting), but it does now keep my
system clock accurate.
cheers,
Tim
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